Children learn a lot through games if the games are designed properly. It's great for child's development and for their brain development. During childhood, children are formed into students, in this way they get to know each other and form values. In my diploma work, I tested the NTC-learning method, the author of which is dr. Ranko Rajović.
The diploma thesis entitled Development of non-linguistic communication at the second stage of NTC-learning, consists of theoretical and empirical work. In the theoretical part I presented the development of the child's non-linguistic communication, what is non-linguistic communiction and how it manifests itself in the child. I described how a child's brain develops, how it works and how the NTC-learning system affects a child's brain. I also introduced NTC-learnin and in more detail described the second stage.
For the empirical part, I took into observation a group of 24 children aged 4-5 years. In this group, I performed NTC activities daily for four weeks.
The activities I carried out were the activities that dr. Ranko Rajović prescribes in the second stage of NTC-learning. Through child's games we looked for associations to different objects or colors, from different pictures we composed illogical creations, made up illogical stories and learned to recite songs through pictures. With all of these activities, I was interested in how a child's non-linguistic communication will develop, whether it will change, whether children will be more open and more thoughtful after their brains work differently than they normally do. When something is illogical, our brains include additional cognitive capacities for analysis - whether it is real or not. These reserve capacities represent our potencials.
During the activities I observed the children in detail and monitored their progress with a checklist on non-linguistic communication. I filled out a checklist for each child before the start of the activity, after two weeks of implementation and after the end of the implementation, thus gaining insight into their potential progress.
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